consider

verb

1. 1

   To think about seriously.

   Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.

   How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?

   Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible.

   If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

2. 2

   To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.

3. 3

   To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.

   I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.

4. 4

   To assign some quality to.

   Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.

   I considered the pie undercooked.

   I consider you (to be) an excellent friend.

   "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."

5. 5

   To look at attentively.

   She sat there for a moment, considering him.

   She considereth a field, and buyeth it.

6. 6

   To take up as an example.

   Consider a triangle having three equal sides.

   Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.

7. 7

   To debate (or dispose of) a motion.

   This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.

8. 8

   To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

   He never seems to consider the feelings of others.

   Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.

   February 21, 1679, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.

9. 9

   To believe or opine (that).

   Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,[…].

   What is clear is that the courts in both Alberta and Ontario consider that there must be some preliminary assessment of the evidence of alleged breaches of the relevant Act when considering whether a freeze order is justified at the investigation stage.

Forms

past tense

considered

past participle

considered

present participle

considering

third person singular

considers